Hardware heaven: hyperscan

Who needs Pikachu? Almost a decade before LEGO Pokémon, innovators in Billund developed an expansive platform that would have taken a uniquely LEGO System approach to trading card games

Stuart Hunt explains why Microsoft’s second console remains its best

BEFORE BECOMING PART OF TT GAMES, TRAVELLER’S TALES WAS BEST KNOWN FOR CHARACTER-BASED ACTION TITLES SUCH AS TOY STORY, SONIC 3D AND CRASH TWINSANITY. FOUNDER JON BURTON HELPS RETRO GAMER CELEBRATE THE STUDIO’S FINEST RELEASES

In Console Wars: The Card Game, you and up to four other players represent competing console companies trying to amass a stellar lineup of games for your system while cutting your rivals’ legs out fro

Hudson Soft’s Ninja Cop swung into action on the Game Boy Advance, delivering fast-paced, justice-fuelled thrills and playing like a cross between Strider and Bionic Commando. It now demands a hefty price on the second-hand market, but is it actually worth the effort to track down?

Insert the coin, turn the dial and see who pops out – will it be a Classic Space astronaut? A Paradisa vacationer? Or a hitherto unknown knight?